Technical information

Symbol
NameFullwidth tilde
Unicode numberU+FF5E
CategoryFullwidth ASCII variants
DescriptionThe Unicode character ~, or U+FF5E, is known as the "Fullwidth Tilde". It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a tilde (~) but is fullwidth, meaning it occupies the full character space width typical for East Asian typography. The fullwidth tilde is commonly used in East Asian text to fit better alongside other fullwidth characters, such as kanji or hanzi. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity~
HTML Entity (hex)~
URL Escape Code%EF%BD%9E
UTF-8 (hex)0xEF 0xBD 0x9E
UTF-8 (binary)11101111:10111101:10011110
UTF-160xFF5E
UTF-320x0000FF5E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\uFF5E"
CSS Code\FF5E
JavaScript"\uFF5E"
Perl\x{FF5E}
Python 2u"\uFF5E"
Python 3\uFF5E
Ruby\u{FF5E}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ~ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#65374;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\FF5E";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References